Quotes About John Irving

I could find him every noon, sitting on a bench in the Rathaus Park with a small, fat bag of hothouse radishes in his lap and a bottle of beer in one hand.

It's bullshit that those two had no known illnesses—they had sexual intolerance up the wazoo!" Nora was raving. "They had incurable hatred of sexual differences!" Nora shouted.

He's from Finland," Alice explained. "That means your father has gone to Helsinki, Jack.

As a novelist, he was a little fussy about chronological order, a tad old-fashioned.)

But he was sullen about it, with the predictable attitude of someone who has been right—at all costs. And, therefore, wonders if he was wrong.

Sure, I know them. You can't exactly get lost in Winnipeg.

But he was not acting in this performance—they were.

If pride was a sin, thought Dr. Larch, the greatest sin was moral pride. He

Ce n'était pas là l'un des points forts de Garp : la tolérance à l'égard des intolérants. Les fous le rendaient fou. On aurait dit qu'il se sentait personnellement révolté de les voir céder à la folie en partie, sans doute, parce que lui même devait si souvent lutter pour se comporter de façon sensée.

He seemed only slightly intimidated by my muscles; he had an arrogance larger than most people's hearts and minds.

But I tried to feel I was part of the demonstration; sadly, I didn't feel I was a part of it—I didn't feel I was part of anything. I had a 4-F deferment; I would never have to go to war, or to Canada. By the simple act of removing the first two joints of my right index finger, Owen Meany had enabled me to feel completely detached from my generation.

In both classes, Pastor Merrill preached his doubt-is-the-essence-of-and-not-the-opposite-of-faith philosophy

Just give me the antibiotic," Esperanza said. "Of course I'll be infected again! I'm a prostitute.

If he'd had half a brain, he might have anticipated the problem inherent in watching a movie with Emma and Claudia.

Frank, tell us what sex is," Franny would say, but Father would rescue us all by saying, in his dreamy voice, "I can tell you: it couldn't have happened today. You may think you have more freedom, but you also have more laws. That bear could not have happened today.